We performed a comparison between Grafana and OpenText SiteScope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc."
"It's integrated with different monitoring tools, such as AppDynamics."
"For the system environment, SiteScope can be useful."
"It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box."
"Has a simple setup. It can be up and running within hours."
"Our experiences with Micro Focus SiteScope have been mostly positive as we can easily work with multiple monitors and different types of monitors pretty quickly. There are a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for us through Micro Focus SiteScope, so we don't have to do that much custom coding for the vast majority of requests that we get for monitoring. There are some limitations that we've run into and some problems every once in a while, but they've been relatively minor."
"It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates."
"Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"It should improve its integrations with various tools, especially service management tools."
"The graphs and dashboard in the solution are areas that need improvement."
"SiteScope isn't productive if you want to monitor RAM or if you want to monitor some URL."
"Sometimes in a huge environment, I think the documentation does not provide the required calculations so you can't know what the required set up should be. You need to test."
"In terms of issues with Micro Focus SiteScope, some that we've run into were unintended, for example, extra executions of monitors and some false alerts when there were problems connecting to endpoints or there were issues with the application that sometimes resulted in false positives. We had a few issues with the way time zones were configured when the system time differed from the time indicated during the monitoring, but those were just little things that weren't too bad. As far as the limitations of Micro Focus SiteScope, the types of scripting files that can be executed are rather limited unless you go to some third-party plugins. These are the areas for improvement in the solution."
"Micro Focus Voltage SiteScope could improve by adding more features, such as cloud, APM, and DevOps monitoring."
"Direct integration with an SMS gateway for sending critical alerts to the support SME. This will help customer investing in third party middleware solutions for SMS."
"More out of the box Cloud integration and capabilities."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while OpenText SiteScope is ranked 28th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while OpenText SiteScope is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText SiteScope writes "Doesn't require much custom coding and can run on different platforms, but the types of scripting files you can execute on it are limited". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas OpenText SiteScope is most compared with Dynatrace, SCOM, AppDynamics and Prometheus. See our Grafana vs. OpenText SiteScope report.
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